Today's amusement...

[Dr. Z]

Earlier on today at the Uni radio station we received a rather irate email from a listener who threatened to report us to OfCom and the Police for operating a pirate radio station!

After replying to the email stating we were operating under a Restricted Service Licence and fully legal they continued to email saying that Apple owned 87.7FM and had set it aside for users of the iTrip and similar devices and went on to state how we had prevented him from using his £200 device!

Kriss (the deputy station manager) made a mistake as he didn't realise the legislation had changed regarding the legality of the iTrip etc but this guy was comedy

Here are the emails:

Dear Shock Radio,
Having plugged my iPod in on FM Channel 87.7 this morning, its
irritating to find that I have just just wasted £200 on having an iPod
connection fitted in my car to hear you transmitting illegally.

Any chance you can find another frequency so I can enjoy my new Paul
Weller album in as best quality as possible?
I won't go to the police or ofcom this time.

Best wishes,
Mr Perry.

Subject: Re: Pirate Radio

Hi,

As deputy station manager can i can assure you we are not pirate. If you look onto
the ofcom website under RSL's you will see we are on 87.7 fm, And infact if your
ipod is using an FM frequency, it is you that needs a licence.

Kriss Herbert

Well, listening to you 'on-air' this morning Kriss, you operate like a Pirate station.
Your website suggests otherwise. And this is all the evidence I require. Thank you.
www.shockradio.co.uk
It is common knowledge within the broadcast industry (where I work) that the FM
freqeuncy 87.7 is a dedicated iPod installation frequency.
Purchased by apple and offered as a post gratia interim before the (hopefully not)
impending sale of the remaining wireless FM frequencies.
If you would like to ruminate further over our knowledge of ofcom and its boundaries
implemented, I suggest you pick-up any broadcast manual and check in there.
I have notfied both the police and ofcom now and will let them take care of matters.
Your lack of politeness and arrogance will be retracted when you realise this.
It is only someone with a distinct lack of authority on such matters who would have
the naivety to suggest the humble iPod required a licence.
I look forward to your forthcoming thoughts.
Best regards,

I love people like that

[petemc]

Whats he going to do? Arrest your ariel?

[Blackstar]

*sigh* what a bellend, i love people who "work in the industry".

[Dr. Z]

I can imagine the phone call to OfCom:

"Hi, I would like to report a pirate radio station please!"

"OK Sir, what can you tell us about the station, what frequency were they broadcasting on etc?"

"They were called Shock Radio, broadcasting on 87.7FM around Manchester"

"OK Sir, we actually granted them a licence"

"..."

"Goodbye"

[Will]

Quality. Please keep us up to date with this - I love it when these things happen

[Blackstar]

That is if he ever carried out his threat, he just likes feeling big and clever. Doing something like complaining could prove him wrong and he wouldn't like that.

[Feek]

What a muppet, 'tis people like this what cause unrest.

[Flibster]

Now to make his humiliation complete - put a dedication on the air to him.

Some suggestions:

Colin Raye - I love being wrong
Prove Me Wrong - Prove Me Wrong
Robert Belfour - What's Wrong With You
Fleetwood Mac - That's Wrong
Aaron Tippin - There Ain't Nothin' Wrong With The Radio
Sade - Mr Wrong
Weird Al Yankovic - Everything You Know Is Wrong
Queen - Liar
The Sex Pistols - Liar

Simon/~Flibster

[Feek]

I want to see the reply (if any) to the last one.

[Joe 90]

rofl - newb, £200 for an iTrip to be fitted to his car :|

i think i'd of had to mention that apple don't make the iTrip though...